The New Student's Reference Work/Ami, Henry M.

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90490The New Student's Reference Work — Ami, Henry M.


Ami (ä' mee), Henry M. M. A., D. Sc., F. G. S. and F. R. S. of Canada, was born at Belle Riviére, near Montreal, Nov. 23, 1858. He is the son of the late Rev. Marc Ami of Geneva, Switzerland. He was educated in the Ottawa public and grammar schools and at McGill University, where he took high honors, and in 1903 was awarded the Bigsby medal by the Geological society of London, Eng. He has been the paleontologist of the geological survey of Canada since 1882, and is the author of many papers on the paleontology and chronological geology of Canada. His home is in Ottawa, and there he edited the Naturalist, from 1895 to 1900.